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MicroSoft Access won't start

Long story, but PC crashed and rebuilding it. Installed XP Pro, installed Office XP but Access will not run. When I click the icon, a dialog box pops up that says "Please wait while Windows configures Office XP Pro" and on the bottom gathering information is displayed for about 2 seconds then the dialog goes away and nothing happens. Word, Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint all work.

I installed winXP fresh and am trying to get to my databases for xmas cards and my dvd collection.

Re: MicroSoft Access won't start

Yes, uninstalled and reinstalled. Did the repair from add/remove programs. Installed just access, but still no luck. I was having trouble installing Office XP SP3 from the windows update site and just installed it by going to MS download center. I tried Access from the start menu after SP3 was installed and still get same result as described in original post.

Re: MicroSoft Access won't start

Hi and welcome to Press F1!

I realise this won't solve the problem but a quick and dirty workaround in the meantime would be to import the data into Excel using menu option Data > Import External Data > Import Data > Files of type : 'All' > navigate your way to the database and see if you can access the tables. If you can do this then at least you haven't lost your data.....

HTH, Andrew

{Edit} P.S. you mentioned the update - have you tried doing a system restore to a time before the update?